भाषा

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Etymology

From Sanskrit भाषा (bhāṣā).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [bʱaːʃaː]

Noun

भाषा • (bhāṣā) f, Urdu spelling بھاشا

1. language, speech, dialect

   संस्कृत बहुत समृद्ध भाषा है।

   Sanskrit is a very rich language.

   वह भाषा की उत्पत्ति पर खोज कर रहा है।

   He is doing research on the origins of language.

Declension

declension of भाषा

	singular		plural
direct	भाषा (bhāṣā)		भाषाएँ (bhāṣāẽ)
indirect	भाषा (bhāṣā)		भाषाओं (bhāṣāõ)
vocative	भाषा (bhāṣā)		भाषाओ (bhāṣāo)

Synonyms

• ज़बान (zabān)
• बोली (bolī)

Derived terms

• मातृभाषा (mātrbhāṣā)

References

• Platts, John T. A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English Oxford. 1884.

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Marathi

Etymology

From Sanskrit भाषा (bhāṣā).

Noun

भाषा (bhāṣā) f

1. language

Derived terms

• जन्मभाषा
• देवभाषा
• बालभाषा
• संस्कृत भाषा

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Sanskrit

Etymology

From the verbal root √bhāṣ (“to speak, talk, say, tell”).

Noun

भाषा (bhāṣā) f

1. speech, language (especially common, vernacular or vulgar speech, as opposed to Vedic or in later times to Sanskrit, as the refined speech)
2. any Prakrit dialect or a particular group of 5 of them (namely माहाराष्ट्री (māhārāṣṭrī), शौरसेनी (śaurasenī), मागध (māgadha), प्राच्या (prācyā) and अवन्ति (avanti), also called पञ्चविधा (pañca-vidhā))
3. description, definition
4. (law) accusation, charge, complaint, plaint
5. name of Saraswati
6. (music) name of रागिणी (rāgiṇī)

Declension

    Feminine ā-stem declension of भाषा

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	भाषा (bhāṣā)	भाषे (bhāṣe)	भाषाः (bhāṣāḥ)
Vocative	भाषे (bhāṣe)	भाषे (bhāṣe)	भाषाः (bhāṣāḥ)
Accusative	भाषाम् (bhāṣām)	भाषे (bhāṣe)	भाषाः (bhāṣāḥ)
Instrumental	भाषया (bhāṣayā)	भाषाभ्याम् (bhāṣābhyām)	भाषाभिः (bhāṣābhiḥ)
Dative	भाषायै (bhāṣāyai)	भाषाभ्याम् (bhāṣābhyām)	भाषाभ्यः (bhāṣābhyaḥ)
Ablative	भाषायाः (bhāṣāyāḥ)	भाषाभ्याम् (bhāṣābhyām)	भाषाभ्यः (bhāṣābhyaḥ)
Genitive	भाषायाः (bhāṣāyāḥ)	भाषयोः (bhāṣayoḥ)	भाषाणाम् (bhāṣāṇām)
Locative	भाषायाम् (bhāṣāyām)	भाषयोः (bhāṣayoḥ)	भाषासु (bhāṣāsu)

Compounds

• भाषाकुमुदमञ्जरी (bhāṣā-kumuda-mañjarī)
• भाषाकौमुदी (bhāṣā-kaumudī)
• भाषाचित्रक (bhāṣā-citraka)
• भाषाज्ञ (bhāṣā-jña)
• भाषानुशासन (bhāṣā-nuśāsana)
• भाषान्तर (bhāṣā-ntara)
• भाषापरिच्छेद (bhāṣā-pariccheda)
• भाषापाद (bhāṣā-pāda)
• भाषाप्रकाशिका (bhāṣā-prakāśikā)

• भाषामञ्जरी (bhāṣā-mañjarī)
• भाषारत्न (bhāṣā-ratna)
• भाषार्णव (bhāṣā-rṇava)
• भाषालीलावती (bhāṣā-līlāvatī)
• भाषाविवृतिगीता (bhāṣā-vivṛti-gītā)
• भाषावृत्ति (bhāṣā-vṛtti)
• भाषावृत्त्यर्थवृत्ति (bhāṣā-vṛtty-artha-vṛtti)
• भाषासम (bhāṣā-sama)
• भाषासमिति (bhāṣā-samiti)

Related terms

• प्राकृत (prākṛta)

Descendants

• Bengali: ভাষা (bhasha)
• Burmese: ဘာသာ (batha)
• Dhivehi: ބަސް (bas)
• Dutch: bahasa
• Fiji Hindi: bhasa
• Gujarati: ભાષા (bhāṣā)
• Hindi: भाषा (bhāṣā)
• Indonesian: bahasa
• Kannada: ಭಾಷೆ (bhāṣe)
• Javanese: basa
• Khmer: ភាសា (phīəsā)
• Lao: ພາສາ (phaa-saa)
• Malay: bahasa

• Malayalam: ഭാഷ (bhāṣa)
• Marathi: भाषा (bhāṣā)
• Nepali: भाषा (bhāṣā)
• Oriya: ଭାଷା (bhāṣā)
• Pali: bhasa
• Panjabi: ਭਾਸ਼ਾ (bhāśā)
• Sinhalese: භාෂාව (bhāṣāva)
• Tamil: பாசை (pācai)
• Telugu: భాష (bhāṣa)
• Thai: ภาษา (phaasăa)
• Urdu: بھاشا (bhāśā)

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898, page 0755